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Originally Posted by Brian Ratliff
I don't see anything but bad in making a current 4 lane + bike lane into a 6 laned NOL road.
What if that outer lane had sharrows or a bicycle icon or some such regular reminder that cyclist are to use its full width?

What if that road had an intersection every 200' or so, a major one every 1/4mi?

What if there was a 3mi stretch with no intersection, but a sign at the begining of the stretch said 'pass cyclist using adjacent lane' or some such language?

What if cyclists regularly used this road and it was commonplace to encounter them using the full lane?

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